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Call Us Today at : (512) 561-7451Yuma County, Arizona
Yuma grew up at the Yuma Crossing on the Colorado River, and irrigated yards plus triple-digit heat shape the work Precision Pest Control does for homes, military households, winter visitors and farm-related businesses. Termite and pest inspections for sales are included, with attention to Indian house crickets, American cockroaches, bark scorpions, mosquitoes and Africanized honey bees from Historic Downtown to Fortuna Foothills, Somerton, San Luis and Wellton.
What Precision Pest Control offers
Yuma pest control from Precision Pest Control serves year-round families, military households, winter visitors and local businesses. Estimates cost nothing, our products are eco-friendly and every plan accounts for the heat and irrigation that drive pests indoors.
Home service focused on drains, cleanouts, door thresholds and watered yards. We also check houses that have been closed for months before winter residents move back in.
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Plans for Yuma restaurants, shops, offices and farm-related businesses, with regular inspections of drains, storage and loading areas for roaches and crickets.
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Buying near the base or in the Foothills? Have the house inspected for termites and other pests first, and learn what it needs, from sealing to treatment.
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Tell us what you are seeing and where. We will recommend a plan for your home or business, with service plans from $57.
What we treat
Crickets, Sewer Roaches and Scorpions in Sunny Yuma
Indian house crickets
First recorded in Tucson in 1963, the Indian house cricket spread across Arizona and by the late 1970s was the household pest exterminators recorded most often in the state. It is light tan with darker bands and is the one cricket able to breed inside a house. Crickets collect along foundations and door thresholds after dark, and in large numbers they will chew fabrics and even drywall.
American cockroaches
Yuma's biggest roach is the American cockroach, about 1 1/2 inches long, reddish brown with a pale band behind the head. Its main haunts in this region are sewer lines, treatment plants and dumps, and it reaches kitchens and bathrooms through drains, door gaps and slab cracks. Tight-fitting trash lids, repaired plumbing leaks and good door sweeps all help, and sticky traps show where they are entering.
Arizona bark scorpions
Bark scorpions stay active most of the year in the low desert, and they thrive when overnight lows hold above 70 degrees. Homes with irrigated landscaping can carry far larger populations than untouched desert. They squeeze under loose weatherstripping, climb walls and ceilings and travel inside wall voids to outlets and switch plates. Children 9 and under who are stung need immediate medical attention.
Mosquitoes
The Yuma County Pest Abatement District traps and tests mosquitoes, fogs hot spots and treats larvae, including along the West Wetlands, and it is the only county in Arizona that also uses sentinel chickens to watch for West Nile virus. Your part at home is removing standing water in buckets, planters and old tires, keeping screens repaired and wearing repellent outdoors.
Africanized honey bees
Arizona has had Africanized honey bees since 1993, and they are now recorded statewide, so any wild colony should be treated as Africanized. Extension agents say they pose the greatest threat to people who work outdoors, including farm workers and landscapers. Extension records trace most attacks to someone disturbing a hive, occasionally with a mower, tractor or trimmer. Have colonies in walls, sheds or irrigation boxes removed professionally.
Spotted something?
Fields are green, winter visitors fill town, and nights cool off, with January lows averaging about 48 degrees. Frost comes only about one year in fifteen. Scorpions slow down in these months and cluster in protected spots, so winter is the best time to seal, screen weep holes and fix door sweeps.
Honey bees swarm in spring as colonies divide, and a resting swarm can hang on a tree or eave for a day or so before moving on. Keep power equipment away from any bees you see. Once nights stay above 70 degrees, conditions are ideal for scorpions again.
With highs regularly above 100 degrees, pests move toward shade and moisture. American cockroaches are most visible in the warm months and come up through dry drains. Keep irrigation from pooling against the foundation and check the outside of the house at night with a UV light, which makes scorpions glow.
These are Yuma's monsoon months. Scorpions relocate when rain floods their hiding places, and some of them end up indoors, while mosquitoes breed in any water left standing after a storm. Drain containers after every storm and watch for crickets gathering at doors as the season turns toward fall.
Describe it on the phone and we will tell you what it likely is and how we would treat it. Estimates are free.
7 questions answered
Looking for pest control near you in Yuma? Call (512) 561-7451 or request a free estimate.
Most indoor crickets in Yuma are Indian house crickets, the most common and troublesome species in Arizona and the only one that reproduces indoors. They gather at foundations and doors at night and walk in through gaps. Caulk and weatherstrip openings, make sure every door including the garage closes tightly, switch to bug bulbs and use cricket baits indoors if needed.
Yes. The Yuma County Pest Abatement District runs surveillance and uses fogging, adulticides and larvicides, including treatments along the West Wetlands. It also monitors sentinel chicken flocks for West Nile virus. The approach has worked: Yuma County reported no West Nile cases in 2021, while Maricopa County had 182 by mid October.
Less so, but they do not disappear. University of Arizona entomologists say bark scorpions are less active from November through March and bunch together in sheltered, undisturbed spaces during the coldest weather. Use those quiet months to seal the gaps, door sweeps and weep holes they will rely on once warm nights return.
Pricing starts at $57, and estimates are free. What you pay depends on the size of the property, how much irrigated landscaping surrounds it and which pests are active, because watered yards carry far more scorpions than open desert. Send details online or dial (512) 561-7451 and we will sketch a plan for your Yuma house.
Yes, and it is worth doing before winter residents return. Dry drains let American cockroaches climb up, and crickets and scorpions can settle into thresholds and wall voids. We check drains and cleanouts, door thresholds, weep holes and exterior lights, and treat what we find. Estimates are free and products are eco-friendly.
Yes. Restaurants, shops, offices and farm-related businesses are all covered. We look at drains, storage rooms and receiving areas for roaches and crickets, and for businesses with outdoor crews, honey bee colonies in walls, sheds or irrigation boxes are a real concern. We start with a free estimate.
We inspect the house for termites and other pests and explain what it needs, from sealing gaps to treatment. In Yuma that includes drains and cleanouts, stucco weep holes, door thresholds and irrigation lines near the walls, which are the spots pests use. Buyers, sellers and agents receive clear findings before closing.
Guinness lists Yuma as the sunniest city on Earth, and the thermometer reaches 100 degrees or higher on about 117 days in a typical year. Irrigation and two rivers supply the water that desert pests cannot find elsewhere.
Yuma is the seat of Yuma County, with 95,548 residents at the 2020 census, and sits just 256 feet above sea level in the far southwest corner of Arizona. The city grew up at the Yuma Crossing, a natural ford where the Colorado River narrows, close to where the Gila River joins it. Rain averages only 3.36 inches a year, and the record high is 124 degrees, set in 1995.
Farming shapes everything here. The Yuma area grows about 90 percent of the leafy vegetables produced in the United States from November to March, and more than 175 crops in all, which earns it the name Winter Lettuce Capital of the World. Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and Yuma Proving Ground add military families, and 70,000 or more winter visitors arrive each year. Watered yards matter too: extension research shows irrigated landscapes support far more scorpions than open desert, and roaches and crickets thrive wherever they find moisture.
Local field notes
What our technicians check first on a Yuma property
Unique to Yuma
Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Yuma details that shape every plan we write here.
Yuma homes range from houses in the historic downtown area to newer neighborhoods and the communities around town, including Fortuna Foothills, Somerton, San Luis and Wellton nearby. Winter visitors, military households and year-round families all deal with the same pests, and a house that has been closed for months deserves a check before it is reopened.
Our visits focus on the places Yuma pests use: drains and cleanouts, stucco weep holes, door thresholds, irrigation lines and exterior lights. We serve houses, rentals, businesses and real estate transactions, using eco-friendly products, on plans that begin at $57. To get started, schedule a visit online or ask for a free estimate.
Talk to us at (512) 561-7451 about a free estimate and a plan built for low desert heat.
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